Arrivals, and the record now

As of November 2026

What stands where, in November 2026, is a watched park inside an unwatched township. On invasives, this section prints only what its carriers reach: the river system's arrivals in the South Bend build — zebra mussels in the St. Joseph River, carp at the gate — are river facts, and no carrier reached places zebra mussels in Worster Lake or Potato Creek; no invasive is claimed for the township's waters, and the DNR's aquatic-invasive monitoring for the lake stands as the named settler for the question. No kept or mascot animal carrying the town's name was found. The record now, whole: a county baseline from 1880 against which the great predators are gone and unreplaced; four return arcs — deer, turkey, otter, beaver — visible on protected township ground; a marsh system partly re-wetted and re-prairied inside the park's bounds since the 1990s; a lake fishery of bass, bluegill, crappie, wipers, catfish and perch; osprey nesting on poles over that lake, as they did before the reintroduction; eagles passing and wintering, with their township nest unproven; and more than 220 counted bird species on the best-watched ground in Liberty Township. Outside the park fence the township keeps no comparable watch, and that difference — not any single species — is the honest closing fact of this section.